“Drown thyself? Drown cats and blind puppies.”
“Come, be a man. Drown thyself? Drown cats and blind puppies!”
“Therefore make money. A pox of drowning thyself! 'Tis clean out of the way. Seek thou rather to be hanged in compassing thy joy than to be drowned and go without her.”
“People who wouldn't dream of drowning a puppy in a barrel full of water think nothing of killing a fish the same slow way.”
“The cat that Prim got hates me, I think partly because I tried to drown it.”
“Perhaps all early love affairs ought to be strangled or drowned, like so many blind kittens.”